Projects tagged ‘grep’, ‘programming’, and ‘regexp’

ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code. ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions. * ... [More] Searches recursively through directories by default, while ignoring .svn, CVS and other VCS directories. * ack ignores most of the crap you don't want to search * Lets you specify file types to search, as in --perl or --nohtml. * Color highlighting of search results. * Uses real Perl regular expressions, not a GNU subset. * ack is pure Perl, so consistent across all platforms. It even comes as a single standalone program with no module dependencies. [Less]

A grep replacement in pure Ruby. Use Ruby regular expression syntax and get highlighted output. Automatically recurses directories and excludes .svn/ pkg/ etc. Based on the Perl tool ack by Andy Lester.